![]() ![]() The action and animation is beautiful and incredibly fluid, more so than most anime today. It’s also impossible for me to label this a hentai (Japanese animated pornography) because the story is not centered around the sex in an way, those scenes are shown to make your skin crawl and fill you with not hatred towards the show (as many have trouble accepting that we can show exploding heads and guts but not intercourse on a screen), but hatred towards the ultimate villains who deserve every bit of pain and suffering they receive within the story and adds an extra layer of evil in a world already filled with it.īefore I go into the things which I did not like about the show, let’s talk about the action. ![]() To me, they do not detract, but in fact add to the impact of the story and the character’s emotions, this being a rare case where these kinds of scenes fit. And that is the sex there are several intensely graphic scenes of sex in this adventure. Though discussing Akai and Kanie, this brings up a piece of the movie that is hugely debated among viewers on whether or not you will truly enjoy the series, and honestly this one area where I agree this kind of footage needed to exist to carry home the sick and twisted world our heroes live in. What makes them scum though is their bigotry towards the people they seek to kill and the means they have gone through to shape the young heroine Sawa. Akai and Kanie also double as detectives who often get called onto the cases they themselves orchestrated the murder of. ![]() The first half of the main characters, though likeable, are heavily contrasted by their scum of the earth bosses Akai and Kanie, who equip our young assassins with the machinery and information needed to carry out their deadly missions. Oburi also exists to illustrate that when you least expect it, our sins, no matter the slightest, can come back to haunt us at generally the most unexpected of times. Out of the two, Oburi is the lesser capable assassin but still tries his best but continues to come the closest to death. Unfortunately, there has never been a totally uncut English language version of Kite, and probably never will be one.Oburi is a guy who we’re never really given a reason why he’s being forced into the life he’s in, sometimes it’s implied that may even be doing this by choice, maybe to make some money he couldn’t make otherwise at his second job? His personality is that of a man who regrets the life he’s found himself in and is going to do anything he can to get out of it, but he also cares about Sawa and wants to make sure that nothing happens to her in his retaliation. American fans seeking a translated version of Kite have available the translated, uncensored and virtually uncut Kitty Media version. Enterprising fans with a DVD player capable of playing import European DVDs can have Kite uncut and uncensored, but not translated. In effect, anime fans are left in a quandary over Kite. The American “Kite Director’s Cut” restores most of the missing footage and restores the proper sequence order to the two episodes, but is still missing roughly 20 seconds of a clearly underage Sawa having sex- footage considered too similar to child pornography for American release. The result is a fine action film, but not the anime that its creator intended. The debut American version of Kite released by Media Blasters under the Anime Works label is a heavily edited recut with extensive missing footage, scenes out of their original order, and the original two episodes edited together into a single film. This “International Version” is a slightly different edit of the heavily censored American Anime Works version of Kite. The only version of Kite still in print in Japan is the more recent “International Version” released to Japanese VHS and DVD in 2000. ![]() Unfortunately, this original Japanese release is now out of print in Japan. This original Japanese version was uncut but digitally censored in accordance with Japanese law. The original Japanese version of Kite was released in Japan on two VHS and laserdisc volumes in 1998, followed later by a two volume DVD release. The only existing 100% uncut and uncensored version of Kite available on DVD is ironically available only on a German PAL format Region 2 DVD that includes the original Japanese language audio and a German language dub, but no English translation. Some from Media Blasters, Anime Works and others from Ebay and other site. and I have recently found out that they are edited Kite version that I have bought. I am looking for the original uncut unedited Kite version anime dvd. ![]()
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